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Preparing for action, 1953

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Preparing for action, 1953

B (Baker) Troop, 161 Battery set up in new positions in Korea in April 1953. In the foreground technical assistants prepare the artillery plotting board, while artillery crews unhitch the guns to ready them for action. By 1953 the war had become a deadly stalemate.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, War History Collection (DA-01514)

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Ian McGibbon, Asian conflicts – Kayforce, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/34525/preparing-for-action-1953 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ian McGibbon, published 16 April 2012, updated 1 February 2016.